Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

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

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.

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!

It's a mammoth task. We don't have the resources in terms of our treasury departments, we don't have financial investigators who even think in a crafty, cunning way.