I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.