Eventually, I want to finish my degree.
I'd like to do a bit of comedy.
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)
With pencil, you can always erase.
Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.
Write what you care about.
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
I eat well, and I exercise.
I grew up in a town without fathers.
Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.
I don't judge myself by what someone says.
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
My audience is going to die before I do.
Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
Does Obama create confusion on purpose?
'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.
Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.
