Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.