Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.
How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting. . . it was the start of a new Arab world. . The Berlin Wall has fallen.
The U. S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.