Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.