It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal- be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever- human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

To me, adventure is a concept that applies only to those men and women of earlier historical times, like the mediaeval knights who travelled into the unknown. …

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.