Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.