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

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

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

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

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.

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.