You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

I'm not bald. I'm just taller than my hair.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

Heart is the centre of all man's actions because out of it flows out the issues of life

A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.