If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

You have to dream dreams to live dreams.

We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.