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

“The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read 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.”

“You think I look like a teletubby?”

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

“You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund”