Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.