The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.