Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
William Pfaff

Born: December 29, 1928
Died: April 30, 2015 (aged 86)
Bio: William Pfaff was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Known for:
- Barbarian Sentiments (1989)
- The wrath of nations (1993)
- The Bullet's Song (2004)
- Fear, Anger and Failure (2003)