Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.

WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.