Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.