If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

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

History is too important to be left to the historians.

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

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