The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.