One afternoon, sitting close to the window with my study table in front of me, I began trying to write a story. I was not attempting anything particularly ambitious. I simply wanted to put into words something I had been thinking about. However, as I began writing, I faced an unexpected difficulty. The English vocabulary available to me did not seem sufficient to express precisely what I wanted to say. I knew what I wanted to communicate, but the words seemed somehow inadequa

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.