When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed.
Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Every day I try to do breathing exercises meditation and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
In every truth the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political I can't do anything about that.