[t]he Heart Is Like Any

So Many Years Of Preparation, For What Was Called Adult Life: Was It For This?

No Ruler In The History Of The World Has Ever Been Able To Afford A War. They're Not Affordable Things. No Prince Ever Says, 'this Is My Budget, So This Is The Kind Of War I Can Have.

You Think You're Writing One Historical Novel And It Turns Into Three, And I'm Quite Used To A Short Story Turning Into A Novel - That's Happened Through My Whole Career.

Watching Live Actors Onstage, In Something That Changes Night By Night, Real People Picking Up Cues From Each Other, It Concentrates You On The Process Rather Than The Result.

[margaret Thatcher] Was Pretending That Running A Country Was Like Running A Household, Which She Knew Wasn't True.