Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses

You are born to love and live

Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

I think [Mike] Pence is going to represent [Donald] Trump extremely well.

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.

I was a pretty feisty young kid.

A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)