When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.