Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

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

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

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

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.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.