Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

An unexpected Blessing is an answer to a Prayer said, trusting that God will get to it, no matter how long it takes.

Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.