Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence

I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.