I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

Stavo facendo impazzire tutte le persone che mi stavano intorno.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

I've always loved improv. It's my thing.