Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.