Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

I make music because I like making music.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.