Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

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

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

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.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.