I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.