The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals, drug companies, non-governmental organisations. They can buy judges, journalists, politicians, publishing houses, television stations, bookshops and even activists. This kind of monopoly, this cross-ownership of businesses, has to stop.

America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.

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

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.