Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.