There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.
Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
what you fear, you invite.
the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.
Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.
