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

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

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

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

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