With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

Italy is not a country for beginners.

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms--Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I've never been before.

She was stung by sharp regret thinking about the sheets and tablecloths, so costly and never used due to excessive regard.

Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

Accept your feelings. Know your purpose. And do what needs to be done.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.