You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

No animal admires another animal.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

One thing you can't miss in your suitcase is a hat.

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

God is recruiting for himself a people who will populate heaven.

I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.