Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.