Interviewing is not a democratic art.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

My pictures are about making people realize we've got to protect those who can't speak for themselves.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

There definitely is exposure in reality shows, but the exposure will basically get you more reality shows.

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.