Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.