Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

Most High God, how excellent is thy Holy name.

We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness.

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.