It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different…

- Eva Hoffman

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authentici…

- Eva Hoffman

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

- Eva Hoffman

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

- Eva Hoffman

Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

- Eva Hoffman

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

- Eva Hoffman

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

- Eva Hoffman

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

- Eva Hoffman

The worst losses come at night.

- Eva Hoffman