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

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

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

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.