Peter Morgan

“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.”

“David Frost: It's all right. He wants me to do this. To finish him off.John Birt: What?David Frost: He wants the wilderness.”

“Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came--no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man--in the end--a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target.”

“Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.”