David frost

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

Being upbeat is the key to life.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one...