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

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

Chatterers are a menace.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?