He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

One of the real tests of Christian character is to be found in the lives we live from day to day.

Anything that comes easy may not be worth it.

If you love what you do, it isn't your job, it is your love affair.

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.