Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

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

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

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