...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying?

Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

When in doubt tell the truth.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.

In America, you assassinate president. In Soviet Russia, president assassinate you!