Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

I can't think of anybody worse to live with.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.