Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.
In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U. S. -backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier.
I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.
There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like. . . a version of pastoral.
Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.
In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself
I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.
We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
