Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.