A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well b…

I never got used to the way the house Trots fell into the jargon back in Grimsby - I mean, on any other subject, like the death of the novel, or the sex life o…

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously…

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe …

People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.

Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual ~ Tabloid Junkie