I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.

No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.