“I don’t believe that we can sit back and think that the next election is going to drop into our laps, or that all that we need is one more heave”
Michael Howard, the departing Conservative leader, says that the party is having a “fundamental debate” about its future

“My granddaughter once said I have a big imagination. And I said, ‘What’s a big imagination?’, and she said, ‘You remember what never happened’”
Isabel Allende, novelist, whose new book is based on the life of Zorro

“You all know I love LA, but tonight I really love LA”
Antonio Villaraigosa, voted in as the city’s first Hispanic mayor in more than a century, thanks voters

“I never saw Tracey (Emin)’s film but I’m sure it was rubbish . . . There are two of us so I suppose there’s a 50 per cent extra chance of making a good film”
Dinos Chapman, artist, announces plans to write and direct a horror movie with his brother Jake