“The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.”

“Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.”

“With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.”

“They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.”

“Artists don't create society, they reflect it”

“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”

“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”

“I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed”

“The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.”

“You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.”

“Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.”