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

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

I don't write books inadvertently.

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

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.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.