Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?