Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.