They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.