It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

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

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

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

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.

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

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.