We are all naturally xenophobic.

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.