Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

You don't struggle with these questions?""No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have.""An American flaw.

You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart, ” she said finally.

He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.

Surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.

The laws of physics say if there’s a party, Isla will eventually end up dancing on a table.

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.