- We have lived in a catastrophic time. The redundancy of violence and suffering, the sheer immensity of the danger, always threatens to wither the imagination. The effort to think about the fate of the planet, about what man is that he has done to himself all the terrible things that he has in this century, comes to us mostly as dark and private musings.
- [on a visit to Shanghai] I turned abruptly around and traced my way back to the river, leaned against the embankment, and stared a long time. There were no birds. Not a single gull... not even sparrows or songbirds. And there was not a fisherman in sight. The river, for all it's human vitality, was dead.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content