History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

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

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

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

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

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

A police state is a country run by criminals