Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.