But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.