"I am fascinated by religion. It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing."

"None of the widely touted new technologies and weapons systems "would have helped me in the last three year…"

"It is time for Britain to take control of its own destiny"

"Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this polic…"

"I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a gover…"

"My surroundings here begin to weigh on me more than I can express - my word, I have had patience for more t…"

"Yes, star-crossed in pleasure, the stream flows on byYes, as we're sated in leisure, we watch it fly, yesAn…"