Quotes from Thomas Geoghegan

That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

The USSR model was never a serious threat to anyone's bottom line. People blow up over Germany because, for all its left-wing bent, it may be a more plausible form of capitalism than ours.

Yes, Germany is dark, and Berlin is darker. But it is not so clear in Berlin what part of the dark is now faux dark and what part of the dark is real.

So I began to dream of going back to Berlin. Yes, it had to be Berlin. It's not because it's the German town for Germans who can't cut it in the rest of Germany. No,it had to be Berlin because it was the only place I'd ever been really idle, as idle as the man in the movie Claire's Knee.