Nobody in Britain has voted for 4 million people to come here in the last 15 years, and for probably another 3 million to come between now and 2020.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

My double drags his coffin, humble slave, I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape("Winter Sonnets: III")

These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.