I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.