It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

But what can you say in a letter?

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

When in doubt, zoom out.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.