As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person

I choose roles that are not me.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!