"Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous."

"I simply don't understand why the Nobel academy gave him a peace prize or why Charlie Dimmock and Alan Titchmarsh gave him a new garden. And I don't see why he should be given a statue in Trafalgar Sq…"

"All that is thought should not be said, all that is said should not be written, all that is written should not be published, and all that is published should not be read."

"Once emotions are set in motion, and men pitted against men along these unspoken lines, you will have the kind of warfare that will split the nation from top to bottom and undo Malaysia. Everybody kno…"

"Wonder is defined by Thomas in the Summa Theologiae , as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know."