I find it odd that people take me seriously.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

I don't want to go to Peru."How do you know? You've never been there."I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.

Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

I row after health like a waterman.

You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.

Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.