Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

My father did advertising photography.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.