“Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.”
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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.