but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.