“Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.”

“With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfillin...”

“Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.”

“Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still cant flush.”

“In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude...”

“Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still can’t flush.”

“If you can't tolerate the truth, never ask me a question.”

“When we all are already Traveling In Meridian of Earth \/ .... then how it could be possible for us, going back to the previous Meridian without stopping next Meridians !! ... - Tanveer Hossain Mul...”

“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”

“The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offsh...”

“It was the inverse of an island in the sea.”

“The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over again. His appetite drove him mad for something much more than food.”

“The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.”

“When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'”

“Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.”