Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.