I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

Death is the loss of everything all at once.

In the end, only you can care about you.

Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.

Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

Cartoons are windows into the human condition.

While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.