While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.