I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.