People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

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.

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

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.