I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

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.

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

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.

The language of the heartIs the only languageThat everybody can understand.

I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?