Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

I thought you wanted to catch a camel, " you tried again."No.""I want to.""Well, you go then."You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.

Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.

America has to make a new trade deal with Mexico because we're getting clobbered.

It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.