I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Alvin Dark

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.

George Eliot

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Mark Twain

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Lord Alfred Douglas, Collected P

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bertrand Russell

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Erica Jong

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

Socrates

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Eric Hoffer

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Pierre Schaeffer

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

Curt Weldon

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Bill Nighy