Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache..

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the dir….

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty..

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself..

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'….

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!.

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés..

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and….

I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think it was decided at that meeting. The trouble is, a….

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on t….

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished….

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key..

If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured tha….

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University b….

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception..

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting..

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none..

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have..

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way..

Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it..