The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

If you are weak, anyone can come and kick you

Peter Mandelson is one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met. Compellingly, fascinatingly horrible.

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.

I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4, 000 people about it.

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

I had a few miracles happen out there today.

Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence?

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

Smiling is mostly about smiling more.