I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history which has not been discovered before.

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it in the seminary.

Having soon discovered to be great I must appear so and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society and wrapped myself in mystery devoting my time to fasting and prayer.