Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie.
The trouble with righting some wrongs is that it makes the remaining ones seem even more unbearable.
Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.
The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.
The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.
If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.
All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.
As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.
Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.