I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.
apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.
There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.
The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Without promotion, something terrible happens. . . nothing!