"For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And the…"

"“We might have destroyed ourselves, but at least it would have been our own fault.” “Would it, though? Whose fault ex…"

"What we cannot remember, we must rediscover."

"Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere."

"The world is what it is and won’t be bargained with."

"He’s exactly what she wants. He’s the last thing she needs."

"This would have been less annoying had it been untrue."

"Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a …"

"His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions …"

"Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, a…"