I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that in the end it destroys itself, it's so committed to evil and it's so committed to hatred and cruelty that it becomes suicidal. My definition of it is the surplus value that's generated by totalitarianism. It means you do more violence, more cruelty than you absolutely have to to stay in power.

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.