There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

The worst losses come at night.