The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.
Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.