Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

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

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

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

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'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

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