I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.