When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not roll out the welcome mat for unemployed Americans.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

Many, if not most, countries blithely expect their citizens to have carte blanche access to the U.S., "land of immigrants," as a veritable human right, but put up all manner of barriers to Americans who want to emigrate in the opposite direction.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.