One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober.

What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.

We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.