I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.