American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.