If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.