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When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.

There's another little vision in my life, going into a restaurant in New York years ago: All the women are sitting in their little strapless dresses with their cleavage, and there's this one woman in a sleeveless turtleneck and pants. And I can tell you that every man in that restaurant looked at that woman's arms. It was hypnotizing when everything was covered up. Just the face, the conversation - and you see the arms. And the arms and the hands become an obsession. I like that.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.