Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.