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 just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

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

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 believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.