A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

My body gets weak without truth.

The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.

I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever?

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

Drama is a gun that doesn't go off.

One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

red hair is caused by sugar and lust.