I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.
The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.
Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the 'madman theory': he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'
Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
