The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

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.

She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.