Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.

No two person, ever read the same book.

I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'

Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

And who knows which is which and who is who.

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

Doors are for those who lack enemies.