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

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.