...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.