When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.

Everything is fair in love and art.

I think my main concern is because I worry about demagoguery. It's real. You see the people standing up there and applauding.

Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.

I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

I´m a real believer that just doing a little something is a lot better than doing a lot of nothing.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.