It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.