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

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

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

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

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

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.

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.