All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.