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

Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

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

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

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