Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

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

Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)