Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.