The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

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

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.