Select Quotes

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.

I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.

In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it’s just a case of what you select to do. But I think it’s realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!