I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.