I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?