When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

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