During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

He has the gift of quiet.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.