To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.
I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies so that he could send young men and women to war, maybe to die. I think that if the BBC had done their jobs professionally, they'd have realised that you couldn't justify what they said. And nothing has emerged since to justify that report.
I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.
The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.