The subpoena served on Mr. Hubbell was the quintessential fishing expedition, ... The independent counsel freely admits that he was not investigating tax-related charges when he issued it.

My weakness is deep water, structure fishing. It is something I can do and I have had some success fishing deep, but it is something I would like to improve on to be well rounded.

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue that we had theatres in every town and village in the land: they were called kirks, and every week folk packed in to see a one-man show about life, death and the universe.

We do get quite a lot of reticence about it.

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.