Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.