Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

Be not afraid to love.Those who never love, do not know what love is.

Quite often you drive me mad, but more often I'm just mad about you. And that darling, that's the best love there is.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

You'll have to go commando." "Is there any other way?

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.

Never ask for 'a beer.'

I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?