Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

what you fear, you invite.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.