So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.