"My experience in the Labour Party is a reflection of the fact that authority, of whatever kind, does not take well to intellectual independence or criticism of their more stupid dogmas. I think this applies to every government in existence."

"I do not believe that the reading of criminal stories, whatever the criminal stories may be, kills morality in the young. I think that what kills morality in the young is the helplessness in the face of cynical power exercised by men of authority."