In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.
It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.
Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding.
A sense of place is very important in writing.
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
...no one likes change unless it is from sommething bad to something good...
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.
Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
