I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.