I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.