[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.

God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.