...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

I'm interested in villainy.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.

I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.