I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.

Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

You just have to enjoy life and that's what I like to do.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper.