His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.

Harpies, n. A disease transmitted to humans by birds with human faces.

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!

How can I trust that the Bible is reliable?

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as I sit at my typewriter in the middle of a field.