One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.

Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that China and Russia, after all that revolution, have become capitalist economies, not just that the working class has been ruined in the United States and its unions dismantled, not just that Greece has been brought to its knees, or that Cuba will soon be assimilated into the free market - it is also that the language of the Left, the discourse of the Left, has been marginalised and is sought to be eradicated.

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.