Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

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

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

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.