Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.

life separates us as the wind separetes the Dandelion flower petals

Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.