You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world. . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.
You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.