Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.

World looks narrow for great people, and world looks wide for minor people

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.

I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.

No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.