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

A busybody's work is never done.

I had lost faith in biography.

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

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.