After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.