People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.