[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

History is too important to be left to the historians.

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

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