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

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

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

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.