I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

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.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason