Storytelling has a narcotic power.
Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.