Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

What should I take? Something that will not be missed. In the wood at midnight, a magic flower.

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.

I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

I don't see myself as Johnny Football.

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Faith is important to me.