The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

I love living in London.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.