I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.