For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

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

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.