Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

The stars of heaven gives light.

When people ask me how I am I tell them......"I'm present

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?