I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
