"I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned slowly into autumn."

"It's been really difficult, honestly. I'm all shaken up right now. I had to do a lot of acting, basically, to get through the last 48 hours. It was shocking, and I think I'm still in shock, to an exte…"

"All across the so-called liberal media, the reporting and analysis on Venezuela the past weeks has been atrocious. And actually, it has been this way for a long time. We should remember that The New Y…"

"Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible."

"The Sufism that survived and even prospered was tame and promised to subserve prophetism. Some great Sufi poets like Rumi and Attar convey a wrong impression of Islamic Sufism in general; they have be…"