In WASP families, if you don’t get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

It’s the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

You know how thick I am. I don’t even eat yoghurt because it’s got culture in it.

After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as...

I love the different shades of colours. Purely beautiful!

People have the wrong idea about the hijab,: said Zuhra with a toss of her glossy hair. “I wear it because I respect myself. And when the beauty is hidden the more important things rise...

We are amazing individuals.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

Obi-Wan Kenobi once said ‘your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them.’ It seems to be getting harder. Distinguishing reality from the illusions people make for us, or the ones we make for ourselves. I...

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces “nice” people, not...

Culture always tells you to look to illusions for answers. ‘Look at me’, it says, ‘I’ve worked it all out’. Celebrities grow too powerful because people mistake their colour for content. They allow them to...

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Look for a miracle in every encounter.

I’m old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a fairly nice life. You could support your family, and even get a shot at...

Muchas veces me ha sorprendido cómo vemos mejor los paisajes en las películas que en la realidad.

A culture that denies death is a barrier to achieving a good death. Overcoming our fears and wild misconceptions about death will be no small task, but we shouldn’t forget how quickly other cultural prejudices–racism,...

The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth...

So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it