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

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.

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.

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

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

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

The thorn keeps us from over-inflating

Intelligence is derived from two words

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.