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

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.

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.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

I love the storm and fear the calm.

All those who die in the Lord, will rise in the resurrection day.

People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.

Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.