It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

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

It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.