I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?