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

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.