Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.