You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.

The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.