Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

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.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

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.

I live in the realm of love and light.

In the deep sands a man must hoard his water.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

All of you, leave," Vlad responded curtly. "That's not nice," I mumbled. "You should talk to them before you bite them, too. Common curtesy.

New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.