It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.