It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.