Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

To overcome fear, do what you fear the most.

To change the world takes time

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

Communication is only possible between equals.