Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

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.

The quest of validation is undeniable. Yet let your search begin where it should end, always within. Or seek endlessly.

Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.