As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns its programme, the word in falsetto sounds different and new each time. Today, in front of a box office not yet open, hand in hand crackled the hangdog old man and the dainty old woman. The film promised love.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.