It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

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.

Love cost its like working a full time job you got to put work and effort into it, and that's why it fails with a lot of people because they on the job part time !!! #GeminiStatus

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

Men are always looking for what's better and women are just looking for what works.

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.