I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Chatterers are a menace.