Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.