In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

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

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.

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

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

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.