An education without a Bible education is no education.

Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.