Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Savoury food is for main course, and fruit is for pudding.

Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.