We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.

She knew there was something dark in her then, when she left the alley and the shadows followed.

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

I’m still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I’ve got older I’ve chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.