These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

Always a godfather, never a god.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.