If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche.

Western clothes are our everyday wardrobe. But I do not think that it makes much of a difference anymore whether you are Japanese or American or European.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.