In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.