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

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.