Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.
No one loves a country as much as someone who has chosen to live in it.
Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.
The BBC said I could stay on air until I was named. Well, I was named within the week. So I made no broadcasts after I'd been arrested, and the BBC stopped paying me at precisely the time when I needed the money most.
Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour.
When the case against me was dropped, the police simply said "no further action". They do that with everybody.
I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.
The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.
I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land. The political question is this: By what biblical standard is the pagan to be granted the right to bring political sanctions against God's people? We recognize that unbelievers are not to vote in Church elections. Why should they be allowed to vote in civil elections in a covenanted Christian nation? Which judicial standards will they impose? By what other standard than the Bible?