I don’t have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I wanted more stuff, now I am older, I want more time. Richard Coles Read Quote
I’m not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing. Richard Coles Read Quote
My dachshunds are not substitutes for children. But the pattering of tiny feet around the place is a joy. Richard Coles Read Quote
Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my retirement. Thank you, young people of Europe. Richard Coles Read Quote
Like most people, I cook about a dozen dishes, over and over again, and to stretch the menu has meant stretching my competence to breaking point. Richard Coles Read Quote
In my opinion, the best of the knockout cookery series is ‘MasterChef’, which I have watched since Loyd Grossman’s day, back in the 1990s. Richard Coles Read Quote
I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television. Richard Coles Read Quote
The thought of having sclerosis of the synapses is alarming. I wonder if in later life I will pay the price for having overstimulated my mental apparatus in my twenties. Richard Coles Read Quote
I don’t think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite – I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory. Richard Coles Read Quote
I wanted to put together a Christmas album that went back to the stable in Bethlehem and the source of it all. It kind of gets lost sometimes. Richard Coles Read Quote
