Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.

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.

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.