It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.