Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Life is a crisis - so what!

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.