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

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

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

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.