"If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, th…"

"I had to pull about twenty pieces of broken glass out of my hand using tweezers and antiseptic cream. I'm never going…"

"[On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government] I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives an…"

"It's different now, it's different now. Now I can speak the truth. I can tell you that the one thing I really, really…"

"I describe what I do on the day that I do it. The nice thing for me is that I do lots of different things on lots of …"

"I get to my desk at eight in the morning and I leave it at seven in the evening and I just work away. I'm a work mach…"

"One of the interesting things about writing a play is that when you've finished it you have to give it away."

"I don't think people know actually what it's like to be an MP. MPs are cowed, they don't stand up for themselves, the…"

"Lewis Carroll is somebody who wore different hats. He was a clergyman, a mathematician, a teacher. He wrote serious b…"

"After I lost my seat, Michelle [his wife] said, "Come on, you know when one door closes ... it is shut. What do you w…"