A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.