- Quote - "We get so tangled up in knots, we humans, trying to think everything through, trying to guess at outcomes ..."
- Quote - "Well, I still hate novels..."
- Quote - "Everything can be divided into decades"
- Quote-"You know the worst thing about this government? the war on woke. Woke means caring for people & can only be a good thing"
- Quote - "The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more"’
- Quote - "important enough to risk somebody else's"’
- Quote - "The world is made up of our differences"’
- Quote - "Would I that he was not here now, but was then, than he never was here at all"’
- Quote - "impulse towards good involves choice and is complicated, and the impulse towards bad is hideo’"
- Quote - "We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’"
Vodka and volcanoes in Russia's far east
Kamchatka is Russia's Eden, where volcanoes erupt, brown bears rule the forests and Vladimir Putin goes fishing
Vlad the impaler … a fishing lodge on the Zhupanova river, said to be a
favourite of Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Jason Elliot
