Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.