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There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.

London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'

I can't really change for a climate. I've got to be Theophilus London in any weather.

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!