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

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

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.

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

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

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

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?