The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...

As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.