As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.