There are no inevitabilities in history

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.

I' is nothing it just a thought..........!

I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.