The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

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

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

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

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.