I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.