Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.