Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore - James Baldwin

He was silent for a long while. Then: 'You do, sometimes, remind me of the kind of man who is tempted to put himself in prison in order to avoid being hit by a car.'

This may be why we appear to learn absolutely nothing from experience, or may, in other words, account for our incoherence: memory does not require that we reconstitute the event, but that we justify it.

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.