Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.