There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Well, Mrs. Charlie Wylde, I love you more than a fish loves the water.

But I was going to learn the hardest lesson in life: that those whoare closest to you, always betray you first.

The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

I am proud to be a normal size girl and I want to encourage everyone to be confident at any size.

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.