Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

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.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?

Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships