Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.