It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

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

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