One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Buffy Summers: (to Spike) "I could NEVER be your girl!

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !