The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.

In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.

Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

What's really good is African drum music.

God's been good to me, He really has.

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.