To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words 'Never Forget' become irksome eventually.