A busybody's work is never done.

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

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

I don't write books inadvertently.

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.

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