Lawrence Summers

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.