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.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

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

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

History is too important to be left to the historians.