...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.