If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food.
A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.
Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken
Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here. . . and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.
The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.
Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.
The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.
My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".
Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.
God deceiveth thee not.