English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.