It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?

For me, it´s sloth, " I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

I don't look girls in the eyes, I am afraid to fall in love

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.

To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.