I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas, " I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Look to the lilies how they grow!

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.