‎The past is always an invented land.

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.