Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking…

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one wi…