Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

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