“To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it...” — Ben Okri Quote

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

I can see this on Wall Street today - I can see this with the securitization of everything is that, everything is looked at as a securitization opportunity. People are looked at as commodities. I don't believe that our forefathers had that same belief.

From Arizonans like Cesar Chavez to Gabby Giffords, progressive politics is built on the belief that each of our individual efforts is capable of increasing opportunity and improving the lives of more Americans and a more livable world.

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

'Beyond Belief with George Noory' will be an hour-long show that cuts to the heart of what's going on with people today, topics wide-ranging and generally nonpolitical, but even more edgy.