The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.