When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.
We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
When we were on the bus doing the Mr. Show Hooray for America Tour there was a lot of laughter and a lot of pot smoking and a lot of speed metal listening and video game playing. Of course that was all Brian Posehn.
Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus. " Josiah Worthington said, "He looks more like my head gardener, Stebbins. Not that I'm suggesting Stebbins as a name. The man drank like a fish. " "He looks like my nephew Harry," said Mother Slaughter. . . "He looks like nobody but himself," said Mrs. Owens, firmly. "He looks like nobody. " "Then Nobody it is," said Silas. "Nobody Owens.
In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.