If my career continues along its current arc people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor even when they don't mean to.

I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong regardless of gender?

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

Ah the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry whether it's the writer or the spy.