I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this actually (could have) happened."

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

Social media is where losers go to feel important.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.