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

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

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

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.

What is the purpose of my life, is it doesn't have to do with learning to let go?

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

Come on, somebody be brave.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.

Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

I think your life is full of first loves because every time you love someone new, you love them in a different way.

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.