I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

God is mighty. God is caring. God is worthy of praise. God is loving. God is able. God is in control. Nothing takes God by surprise. Some sweet reminders to soak in before falling asleep tonight.

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.