And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

We are all migrants through time.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

The end of the world can be cozy at times.

In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.

My months are spent preparing for the fall.

Citizen's arrest, " he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to.

It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.

Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.