I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?