There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.