Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

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.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

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