You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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.
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason