I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.