Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time

'Hard-working' people need 'honest' government

If you need to get someone drunk in order to have sex with you, you must be a pretty unattractive and inexperienced person. Drunk is not sexy. If you think it is, consider that you may have a serious problem.

The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm. – On Starlit Seas

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof. – On Starlit Seas

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom. – On Starlit Seas