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

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

I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

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.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

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've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

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

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

Messi has all the conditions to be the best.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

Bumps are the things we climb on.