We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead - but we're also suffering from their errors.

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.

The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have sl…

'Look at Van Gogh. He couldn`t sell a painting to save his life while he was alive. The poor guy had to give them away. Same with Basquiat. They used to call h…

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.