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

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.

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

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'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.

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.'