Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

Tune your antenna to the highest frequency possible to attract people of substance increase your circle of influence intentionally.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

I can't even imagine what it's like to run for 5 or 6 hours.

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

The best of it all is, God is with us.

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here