Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.

It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB