Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

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

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

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.