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.

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

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

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

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

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