I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very mu….

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember..

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years..

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness..

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper an….

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked..

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse..

One's life has many compartments..

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt..

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen w….

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. Bu….

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is ….

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since..

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known..

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them..

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo..

I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social func….

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage..

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all..

How can the unknown merit reverence?.

I also found being called Sir rather silly..