At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.