Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.

[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come from? She had no mother. Her father came from a very identifiable background: religious, highly conformist.