As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

Have Fun Storming the Castle!

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?