Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.