Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.