It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.