The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

How do I feel when I am invited to a congregation of scientists? I feel quite at home. When they break into their cultic scientific argot, I know when I'm not wanted and step out for a drink.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.