"He [Brendan Bracken] had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the na…"

"There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep."

"Someone [on the staff of The Times] had invented a game – a competition with a small prize for the winner – to see wh…"

"Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to "believe nothing until it has been officially denied"."

"A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands."

"The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the a…"

"Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what …"

"If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when the…"

"(About Adriano Celentano) [...] He has the right to say what he wants, and I would have defended him even if he had s…"

"Lucio Dalla's funeral is one of the most striking examples of what it means to be homosexual in Italy: you go to chur…"