We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god. . . is not helping him today.
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U. S. congressmen.
And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.
I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget [Wassily] Kandinsky and [Kazimir] Malevich and [Piet] Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.