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

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

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.

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.

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