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.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

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

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

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.