So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.