No one who knows me or reads what I have written over the past two decades can accuse me of romanticizing the politics or peoples of the Middle East.

NPR: Historian Robert Satloff

But as anyone who knows me knows that I am one who very much enjoys juxtaposing two or more seemingly different topics, subjects, etc. and coming away with some words of wisdom, advice and insight that relates to marketers and advertisers.

FORBES: Planting The Right Seed: What A Farmer Can Teach A Marketer

As one who knows her put it to me once - you don't want a monarch who fizzes like a Catherine wheel.

BBC: Queen Elizabeth II's calm reign key to her success

Then one day Luisa, who knows the strangest and most insignificant things and is always surprising me with scraps of useful knowledge, passed me her straw hat and advised me to look through the gaps.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping