And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

the thing you are mostafraid to writewrite that-- advice to young writers

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.

If there is going to be a Big Brother in the United States, it is going to be us. The FBI.