There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.