It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

Going back to legalistic roots contaminates the blood of Jesus.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

who will love you? who will fight? and who will fall far behind?

On a day when secrets shall be outThe man shall have no power nor any helper.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.