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

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.

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

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

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.