Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

I can't think of anybody worse to live with.

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.