Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.

[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.

Beneath every history, another history.

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.