What do you want? Sophronia was moved to exasperation. 'Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.'

What makes you think that people with other types of clothes are special? I can go to the shop, buy such clothes, and what? Now I am important?

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no...

McDonald, who was known to hate policemen, was once approached by two cops for a two-dollar donation. "We're burying a policeman," one of them said, to which Mike responded, "Here's ten dollars. Bury...

All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.

"The culture of power versus the power of culture," he quoted. "One side always loses."

Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.

Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.

If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she...

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her - - she was only an Object of Contempt

With him big Phil from Notting Hill, an old 'face' from the sixties, a pin-up gangster with a 'Mars Bar', weal scraping his left cheek, and of course two 'wag' slags in tow, trussed up like French...

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living...

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear...

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.

Luckily Sumac has extra Rakhi in her pocket and hands them out to anyone who wants one, because really, who cares so long as the threads get tied.

To the victims of homophobia, patriarchy, street harassment and intolerance: don't worry, we'll put a lid on Muslim immigration. There

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when...

Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He's quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He's a...

"It's called Two and a Half Men," Dermot was telling his guest. "I understand," Bellenos said. "Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn't." "I think so," Dermot said. "Don't you think the...

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth. She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?"