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When I'm up, I'm over-exuberant; when I'm down, I just wander round on my own. I have no middle space.

I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.

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I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.

The Europeans do tend to delegitimize Israel and turn Israel into a dirty word, which is unforgivable.

I don't like sports. I'm not interested in sports. I hate sports.

I love the heat and the excitement of Israel, and I will always love Jerusalem.

As a teenager, I had a weakness for freedom fighters. When Mugabe came to London to negotiate independence, I vanished from home to stand outside his hotel. I was very disappointed that he looked like a dorky teacher.

It is a characteristic of potentates that they don't succumb to peaceful retirement. Instead, they hold power in their hoary fists as judgment and grip weaken, destroying any successors except family members.

With popular rulers, the wife can become the guardian of their greatness: Peter the Great was succeeded by his wife, Catherine I. Sometimes the wives are an improvement.

Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange creature he is.

My wife Santa is a fanatical skier, going to Klosters many times a year. To please her, I have for 12 years tried to ski, abseil, mountain-climb, para-scend, heli-ski, land-lauf, ice-skate, toboggan, luge, bobsleigh, yodel, gulp gluhwein, dunk bread in...

Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.

One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.

When I'm in Jerusalem, I stay at the American Colony Hotel, neutral territory: the secret peace talks of 1992/3 started there.

The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years of Russian autocracy.

I can never resist Ruritanian intrigue: I was once charged with the task of offering the Estonian throne to Prince Edward. Feeling like a Dumas Musketeer on a mission, I did so, but he turned it down.

A book's title is vital.

In Georgia, where I spend much time, the democratically elected pro-western President Mikhail Saakashvili has been beleaguered by a riotous opposition which proposes creating a constitutional monarchy under the Bagrationi dynasty, with a Spanish racing driver, Prince 'Jorge' Bagrationi, as...

Gay weddings will be remembered as Tony Blair's greatest achievement!

If only all straight weddings could be somehow gay-ified.

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