There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.