Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.