If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.