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.

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

I don't like seeing people angry.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

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.