There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues the populists the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

I am interested in politics.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

I hate politics hate deals and deal-making hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility if we all sat back and did nothing of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole an empty place and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I've always said that in politics your enemies can't hurt you but your friends will kill you.