As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.