The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

We were briefing them way before landfall. It's not like this was a surprise. We had in the advisories that the levee could be topped.

We were briefing them way before landfall, ... It's not like this was a surprise. We had in the advisories that the levee could be topped.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.