To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past..

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake..

What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting b….

[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because l….

I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevi….

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter..

(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of t….

How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned….

...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of ….

You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: i….