The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

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.

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

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.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.