What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

A police state is a country run by criminals

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.