The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

In violence, we forget who we are

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.