Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by the gods to govern the planet." But the truth is that what counts is getting hold of the last oil reserves. Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the country is going to absolute ruin.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

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

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.