I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.

You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.