The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.

Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.