Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.