The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

The nationalist right have common views. They hate the EU, they hate NATO, they dislike trade, they admire Russia. Many of them are funded by Putin.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

We may be reaching the end of the liberal world order.

Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and tedious process.

Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of course, the secret police force of the Soviet Union.

Don't accentuate our differences, but instead focus on our similarities.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

Play for the guy standing next to you.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.