I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.