The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?