It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

- Robert Harris

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

- Robert Harris

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in adva…

- Robert Harris

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

- Robert Harris

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

- Robert Harris

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward …

- Robert Harris

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

- Robert Harris

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

- Robert Harris

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

- Robert Harris