The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

The worldly vision is filled with infinite infatuations and attachments and no one can escape from it

The quest for knowledge never ends

It's better to shut a fool's mouth with sarcasm rather than cursing him back.

Their marketing strategy had to be changed to the young people. That's who buys the beer.

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

Political confusion starts with terminology confusion.

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.