A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

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

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

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.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.