The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."