William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India… He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.

Faith is freedom.

I didn't realize I could love her more than I already had, but it seems the more we evolve, the more I can't see my life without her.

You might as well laugh at yourself, everyone else is.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.