Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?. . . only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.
I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy. . . what we've got now is an institution that has utterly outgrown its roots which were noble. . . the real difference was the introduction of the euro.
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.