One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.