The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.