He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

A week is a long time in politics.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

When a man and woman are in love, some decisions and questions are answered in silence.

You don't die in the United States you underachieve.

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.