I was just like, 'You know what? If I want to write about the culture war, I don't wanna be a pawn in it anymore.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and culture.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.