I try to make myself walk around a bit, but I probably think about it more than I actually do it. Years ago, I did think about joining a gym.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

I'm not bald. I'm just taller than my hair.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

Brutality creates respect.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.