I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

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.

Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.

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