U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.