It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?

Europeans are quarrelsome.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.