I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.