Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.