Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So we like neck to neck.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.