As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone.

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

Light or Death!

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream ofyesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.