Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

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

A police state is a country run by criminals

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

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

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

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.