In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

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

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

All racists are irresponsible.