It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.