Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.