In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.