"But that is another story and shall be told another time."

“But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.”

“There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.”

“But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.”

Source : "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

“All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.”

“Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had won at some time but that of the people themselves. At least it threw so a light on any other political persuasion.”

“The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.”

Source : States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

“It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and less important who's playing what. You see that on the big screen and the small screen, and I think that's great. That's exciting.”

“When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.”