Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

He was trying to save both his faces.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

Here, for a moment, we are joined.