I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

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.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.