The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.