Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

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.

Love isn't just what you feel for someone when you look at them. It's how they make you feel about yourself when they look back at you.

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

Her dreamy countenance infuriated me more than her words. I had seen that expression directed at me once upon a time.

I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.