Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

A high church for the true mediocre.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn't come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.