Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

The greatest obstacles I ever had to overcome had been my own insecurities.

If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

Only a more savage nation can survive.

It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.

I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.