I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

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.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.

You should have died when I killed you.