My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

I pray to the angels that worship the devil.