The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks. . . These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order.
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.