I'm much too modest a person.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

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

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

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.

The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.