The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves

If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world.

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.