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.

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.

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

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

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

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.