It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.