Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?