You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

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

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

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

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.