Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.