“If you can walk to a meeting in less than half an hour, ditch the car ...” — Cathy Newman Quote

“If you can walk to a meeting in less than half an hour, ditch the car and do it.”

“What is it about politics, though, which makes people from the same tribe tear each other apart? Perhaps ego and ambition have a part to play.”

“I remember agonising, the day before I had lunch with Tony Blair for the first time, over what my opening question to him should be. Something about Iraq? Or something more lateral and icebreaking - about his kids, maybe, or his taste in pop music?”

“If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.”

“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”

“It's hard for the same people who put you in the ditch to pull you out of it.”