Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

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.

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 theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.