Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

I wake up in the morning thinking about food.

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.

There are infinite possibilities.

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, OK, its the first of recording this album. I like to avoid that.