The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.