The Worship Of Thomas More Goes Beyond

God Takes Out Your Heart Of Flesh, And Gives You A Heart Of Stone.

I Am Sure That All Politicians Seek The Home Connection With The Voter. But [margaret Thatcher] Carried It To Extremes.

So Many Years Of Preparation, For What Was Called Adult Life: Was It For This?

Back In My 20s, When I Wrote 'a Place Of Greater Safety,' The French Revolution Novel, I Thought, 'i'll Always Have To Write Historical Novels Because I Can't Do Plots.'' But In The Six Years Of Writing That Novel, I Actually Learned To Write, To Invent Things.

I Am Not A Historian. I Don't See What I Do As Being A Rival To Biography.