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.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

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.

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

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.