Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.