No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.