To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

And we will keep searching for our footsteps in the sands of time...

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

There are many kinds of delusion.

Wow. What would you do if I said I was angry?' 'I would make fire rain from the heavens to smite your enemies with the flames of our shared rage.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.