Leon Max

I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.