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.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Chatterers are a menace.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.