When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.