What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.