In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

The silence leans forward.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.