Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

All new news is old news happening to new people

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

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

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.