To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.

Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.

Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against himself.

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.

Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

If you combine the suffering’s great color palette you will find happiness as well.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Knowing and believing are two different things.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction