The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

I'm attracted to the past.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.