I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

There is no second place for doing first rate work.

The best time management tool is a clearly defined and definite purpose for your life.

But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

Your presence is a miracle.

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.