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

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

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

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

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

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

A police state is a country run by criminals