The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.