Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it

The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don't have these.

People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying 'Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.'