I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.