A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.