E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

It takes grace to know the word of truth.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I'm a bit of a romantic.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.