Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.

The true order is what the wind creates by scattering the leaves.

Resentment can be intoxicating in a way in which a drunk starts to believe he’s stronger than he is.

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as if I want to see myself fail completely and disappear.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!