Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
Robert HarrisIt's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
Robert HarrisCicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.
Robert HarrisTo say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriendโฆ I suppose I ought to have realize itโs ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
Robert Harris