Everyone Thinks Politics Will Just

Another Of Cicero's Maxims Was That If You Must Do Something Unpopular, You Might As Well Do It Wholeheartedly, For In Politics There Is No Credit To Be Won By Timidity.

Orwell Has Always Been A Huge Influence On Me.

To Be Brave, By Definition, One Has First To Be Afraid.

It Is Perfectly Legitimate To Write Novels Which Are Essentially Prose Poems, But In The End, I Think, A Novel Is Like A Car, And If You Buy A Car And Grow Flowers In It, You're Forgetting That The Car Is Designed To Take You Somewhere Else.

Humans Have Changed Little Over Time. We Think We've Invented The Modern World But They Were Making Better Speeches 2,000 Years Ago And Grappling With Issues Of Empire And Terrorism.