World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.