I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

I don't think we set that figure in concrete,

I think we've got to do a better job at answering it. And there's a big job to do. But you're not going to ever turn it around totally.