My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

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

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.