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

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

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

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.