No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.