No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.

Patience is productive only when aligned and doggedly chasing of objectives is pursued with consistence and persistence

Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

I'd definitely like to go to college some day.

My favorite color right now is purple, but it used to be pink. It's kind of always going to be pink.

No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

That was the beauty in stacking up words--they got cheaper, the more you had of them.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

I'll forever be a Longhorn.