Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent ‘the people’. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.
A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
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.
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.