We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.

Every day my anxiety is higher, every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.