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

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.