Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.