Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger.

Call on Jesus Christ in any circumstance.

This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.