Libraries can take the place of God.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

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

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.