I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.