We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.