Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

Being upbeat is the key to life.

What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.

New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.