Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Not every smile is genuine some are just the bared fangs of wolves about to eat you - rjs

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

I think I've learned that if you have a house, you end up living in the kitchen, so if you have one big kitchen and then enough bedrooms for your family, that's about all you need for a home.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

Gratitude is heaven itself.