This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.