Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

My father was in the First World War.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.