Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.