Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility.

He wasn’t gullible enough to be bullied by the ghost’s accusation – for Andrew Fletcher had his share of guilt, but he’d never thrown anyone down a well, either.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.