The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Courage is morally neutral.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

A good book is an education of the heart.