Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.

Discover your level of consciousness. Now be silent and transcend and transform your consciousness.

Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Be what we make, and not who we are.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

I'm not here to be remembered, I'm here to be alive.

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.