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" We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account. "

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" Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes. "

Jeffrey Archer

Who

Success

Mistakes

" I've loved art for more than 30 years. "

Jeffrey Archer

Years

Than

" Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest. "

" I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year. "

" I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book. "

Jeffrey Archer

Comeback

Writing

" I do greatly admire Australian artists. "

" What I have found is that real friends stand by you. "

" I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall! "

" But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot. "

" I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again. "

" Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel. "

" At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life. "

" Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. "

" Exclusive will not be published in book format. "

" When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister. "

" Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment. "

" And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life. "

" I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. "

" I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know. "

" I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life. "

" But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. "

" We all make mistakes but one has to move on. "

" I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative. "

" I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right. "

Jeffrey Archer

Involved

Politics