He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.

North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school

I tell very mean jokes.

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.