If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.

I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.

Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.