The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.