Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.
I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
My business is the analytical framework.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G. K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade
If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.