"I believe in the magic and authority of words."

"I think what all nonfiction writers are aiming for is to make people think about things differently — to te…"

"The dialectics of history have already hooked him and will raise him up. He is needed by all of them; by th…"

"The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy."

"If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer."

"There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré."

"The Holocaust would have been unimaginable without the Nazi Party; the Nazi Party would have been unimagina…"