I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.