They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?

Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.

Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.