The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speak….

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. T….

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever..

We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put t….

He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy….

So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted to mean that we will no….

I'm not somebody who plans my life. In fact, I don't know what's going to happen here in India, it's such a strange climate here at the moment. So ve….

Because of who I am and what place I have now in India, I'm petitioned all the time to get involved. It's exhausting and very difficult to have to sa….

I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise..

Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually pro….

To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure o….

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an ind….

People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who ….

People always loved best what they identified most with..

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war..

They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it was an ins….

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music….

Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's….

With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that the….

Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who suffer the decisions….

What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt….