The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

You don't even need to go to college no more because you could learn how to do everything on YouTube.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!