I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.