Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.