The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Killing is the payoff of war.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you were given.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.