A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.