The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.