The Writer Learns To Write, In The

As The Cia And Kgb, Like God And Satan, Fight Miltonic Battles Across Five Continents.

I Like That Lady - Sarah Palin. She's Great. I Like The Cut Of Her Jib.

Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

A Stalin Functionary Admitted, Innocent People Were Arrested: Naturally - Otherwise No One Would Be Frightened. If People Were Arrested Only For Specific Misdemeanours, All The Others Would Feel Safe And So Become Ripe For Treason.

The Most Evil Person I Ever Met Was A Toss-up Between Pablo Picasso And The Publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.