We call ourselves the social secretaries' sorority.

The intention there is to get general revenue out of funding that stadium quicker.

A king and a queen are coming for a state visit, and the social secretary gets a call from a man who is close to hysterical. All the invitations have gone out, everybody's accepted, and there's no room, but he comes in and tells this long story about his wife dying of cancer, and how they have to have an invitation. So the social secretary makes a special exception and creates a table of 12, which is bigger than all the others. And guess what? She's still alive today, and so is he.

Everything he does he deserves. He went out and got the recognition and he worked to get noticed. I told him to enjoy every second of being recruited, because it will be the only time you get wined and dined.

We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod and have all the world's music at their beck and call in an instant. What an amazing thing!

The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.