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

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

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

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason