Most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.
But that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.
You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precisio...
We need language. We need language to tell stories. We need stories to create a self. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the...
Lightning flickered above the city, a crescent moon sneered through a gap in the clouds. The boutique huddled against the storm, a tiny island of light on an unlit street.
In America, the murky, unknown places of the world are blank screens:
I could not respect how he functioned so completely immersed in the structures of his professional micro-universe. Yes, I too had previously derived comfort from my firm's exhortations to focus intens...
How odd it would be to call Homer’s Iliad or Rumi’s Masnavi the Great Eastern Mediterranean Poem.
Hoarse voice, from intimacy’s border with asthma: parched beaches, dust whipped by the wind. Very sexy but not much to drink.
He whispers a benediction and breathes it into the air, spreading his hope for you with a contraction of the lungs.
Cooking for him is a craft of spice and oil. His food burns the tongue and clogs the arteries. When he looks around him here, he does not see prickly leaves and hairy little berries for an effervescen...
But mostly there was little to report, just the day-to-day goings-on of countless people working and living and aging and falling in and out of love, as is the case everywhere, and so not deemed worth...
Armed college students were telling women to cover their heads.
След обяд имахме практически упражнения, предназначени да ни запознаят с компютърни програми като PowerPoint, Excel и Access. За този курс седяхме в полукръг около благ инструктор с вид на библиотекар...
They faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tensi...
Our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
It’s possible to open our eyes, to see, to recognize our solitude—and at the same time to not be entirely alone.
Ambitious cleric position: Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn't need all that space. But she told them to be pat...
