The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

You'd be surprised how much free time I have.

Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

You have to keep moving forward

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.