The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.