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.

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

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

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

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.

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.