I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

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.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.