"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.