Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.