My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.