I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.