The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.