“We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underesti...”

“Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.”

“It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.”

“Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.”

“Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.”