So when anybody talks to me about retiring, then I figure they're ready for me to die.
That's been my position all along, that's what I tell everybody that talks to me about it.
But he sometimes feels isolated and it is a strain - his eyes well up as he talks to me.
"To me, data talks, " says Richard DiMarchi , Lilly's group vice president for biotechnology.
He added: It would not be helpful for me to speculate about this while talks are ongoing.
The Clinton Administration, it seems to me -- despite a space policy that talks about space control -- is promulgating a policy that says we won't do it.
Indeed, it struck me forcefully that the recent Taliban decision to suspend talks was greeted with real dismay.
He goes believing that he is leaving Northern Ireland a better place than he found it and even at a moment when talks are stalled and power-sharing seems a remote prospect, it seems to me that is a belief to which he is entitled.
"It's been a good start to the season for me and I suppose it's good that my new contact talks are coming up, " he said.
Sitting in his office, close to St Peter's Square, he showed me an album of photographs of a recent trip to Lebanon, where he had talks with religious leaders.
And the reason that, in many cases, Congress votes the way they do, or talks the way they talk, or takes positions in negotiations that they take doesn't have to do with me.
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