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

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.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.