History is really a study of the future, not the past.

The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

Things can change in a day.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.