What Else Has A Journalist To Do

A Desk Is A Dangerous Place From Which To View The World.

I Move My Lips When I Read -- I'm Painfully Slow -- So I Like Really Good English.

My Definition Of A Decent Society Is One That First Of All Takes Care Of Its Losers, And Protects Its Weak. What I See In My Country, Progressively Over These Years, Is That The Rich Have Got Richer, The Poor Have Got Poorer. The Rich Have Become Indifferent Through A Philosophy Of Greed, And The Poorer Have Become Hopeless Because They're Not Properly Cared For. That's Actually Something That Is Happening In Many Western Societies. Your Own, I Am Told, Is Not Free From It.

Unfortunately It Is The Weak Who Destroy The Strong.

To Possess Another Language, Charlemagne Tells Us, Is To Possess Another Soul. German Is Such A Language. Once You Have It In Your Head, You Can Go There Anytime, You Can Close The Door, You Have A Refuge.