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.

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.

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.

Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.

My dad said that the impossible is only impossible if you don’t even try. So I want to try.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

It is important to learn how to take criticism seriously, but not personally.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.