Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.