I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.