The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.