As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.