A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.