Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.