Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.