A tontine is a kind of primitive insurance fund, combined with a sort of lottery. And while it has many flaws as a financial scheme, as a literary device…

Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.

When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.