My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
From Robert Harris
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.
I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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