I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

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.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

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

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.