I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

Always a godfather, never a god.

Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.