There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Do not believe all that you hear and see.Always check the original source of information.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.

I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

Oh, I know what the ladies like.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.