Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.