Robert Harris

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.