My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

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

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

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.