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

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

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.

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

History is too important to be left to the historians.