Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

When you stop growing you start dying.