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

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

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

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

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.