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

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?