The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

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.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

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

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.