As You Get Older, You Sometimes Feel

In A Democracy, Supposedly We Hold Power By What We Do At The Ballot Box, So Therefore The More We Know About Political Power The Better Our Choices Should Be And The Better, In Theory, Our Democracy Should Be.

My Predictions Are Notably Inaccurate

There's A Feeling About It. You Feel Almost Like A Cabinetmaker, Laying Planks. There's A Real Feeling When You Know You're Getting It Right. It's A Physical Feeling.

Whenever I Go To Work I Wear A Jacket And A Tie, Because I'm Inherently Quite Lazy, And My Books Take So Long To Do, And My Publishers Don't Bug Me, So It's So Easy To Fool Yourself Into Thinking You're Working Harder Than You Really Are.

I Am Trying To Make Clear Through My Writing Something Which I Believe: That Biography- History In General- Can Be Literature In The Deepest And Highest Sense Of That Term.