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

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

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. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

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