Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.

You have to be brave when you are stupid

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

Seeing does not always believe.

I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.