That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened.

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.

I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

I think anyone who isn't investing in Nigeria is missing out. If you look at Nigeria today, literally all of the business class cabins are full of foreigners, because these guys see opportunity.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.