I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.