War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.
I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.
I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.
Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.