Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.