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

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.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

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

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.

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