My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.
The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.