The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

Some people feed you with love.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.