The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

You have a great light to illuminate the world.

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.