Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

If you don't like what you're getting back in life, take a look at what you're putting out.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.