I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.
It's hard to judge literary merit.
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, "Music sucks now!" I'll go, "I don't think so. Not over at my house."