These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art.

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.

Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.

There's always something impressive when people are giving themselves to their job absolutely. The military thing - I was conscious that their routine, their way of living is so opposite to mine. In some ways their life seemed intolerable to me. But, mine would be to them, too, because this strangely laissez-faire life of mine actually comes with its obligations as well.