Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t