There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

If it tries to take you, " Wren said, "I wont' let go.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

Twinkle twinkle little star, I want to hit you with a car. Throw you off a bridge so high, Hope you break your neck and die.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

When things are going good they just keep going good.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.