"To a chorus of boos on the left, and some anger on the right. President Jacques Chirac appointed Dominique de Villepin, an unelected member of the French mandarin class, as prime minister yesterday."
"O India. How calm was India? All starving and god-drunk and spattered with dry excrement. When I was there long ago, I felt the moon of my inner non-being was at full. The smell of magnolia remembers me supremely."