A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.

Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.

California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America

Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time, " said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?

Human are best protector or worst destroyer of nature and humanity itself

Courage comes with action.

I want you to ask yourself the entire time before you meet me, 'Is this really what I want?

She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony, " Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.

I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.