The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.