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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.