All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.