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" My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it. "

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" A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude the Obscure' or 'David Copperfield' or 'Herzog,' have an autobiographical spine. "

" I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.' "

" The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it. "

" I got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now. "

" It's amazing that Sky is the only place that has two dedicated arts channels. The BBC is doing very well... but why don't they do more? "

" If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now! "

" Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. "

" Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you! "

" In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. "

" We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords. "

" In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology. "

" I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it. "

" Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but I am not so sure. We are all described by the human genome, but it's getting people nowhere. "

" In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry. "

" Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it. "

" Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking. "

" Sometimes, you're just moved by people's journeys. "

" I love writing, and I love making arts programmes. "

" I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. "

" The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too. "

" As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. "

" Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly. "

" I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different. "

" I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live. "

" I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter. "

" Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s. "

" To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short. "

" Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists. "

" I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. "

" Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. "