Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.