Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.