There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

The media—stenographers to power.

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

It is what the Taoists say: The way to do is to be.

I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.