Charles de Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.