There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.