"One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone"

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”

“What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?”

“American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.”

Source : Niall Ferguson (2002). “Empire: the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power”, Basic Books (AZ)

“reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.”

“When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.”

“The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model.”

“America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.”

“That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.”

Source : Art-nonsense and Other Essays (1929) "Slavery and Freedom"