It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.---Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.'

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Those who live by the Qur'an have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews... it teaches that very clearly.

We love getting dressed up - and this is a great excuse for a party.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.