"'Strategic penetrations' is a phrase I use a lot for the work of socialists and Marxists in bourgeois cultures ... I …"

"[Estimating the proportion of the script for Reds that he wrote] I'd say 45 per cent. My first draft was 320 pages. T…"

"[M]y folly was to believe movies were like plays; that you can fight for your vision. Forget it. A movie doesn't belo…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"

"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""

"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."

"Longing while living for laurel and bays, Under this willow a poor poet 'lays'; With little to censure, and less to p…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"[On the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election] I'll be totally honest, when I heard Andy Burnham wasn't being selected, …"