Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in the trial of Galileo, when they invited him to retract his views.

The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out."- zach

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.