We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.