The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

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

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

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.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

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