He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.