When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

No time like the present

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.