"Sinically depressed" are the hardest to understand when you're not one.

Offer pork chops to a whirlwind and you get… a whirlwind.

The German pope never wrote his press. Others did, and chose cliché. What a difference an encyclical makes.

Until 1998, the bomb was a toy for Christians and atheists only. Now, Hindus and Muslims have a passkey.

At a Rome restaurant, Italy's generation gap is all about cars — until you dig deeper.

Morocco can double for a emirate, but Budapest can’t play Rome. Milan maybe, but not Rome — something the “Munich” director should know.

Bond was a perfect avenger. So why did this… thing… have to arise from the frothy coastline?

Men clumped together in meaty bunches, their Stalingrad eyebrows frozen. Grunts came out in white puffs, like air on fire.

You seek a summarizing voice, and more than one makes itself loudly available.

Boris told me the Martians already owned seven planets and were preparing to conquer an eighth.

Rome has always been a Latin Big Easy, a loud, lusting, disingenuous city dependent on favors.