"Time burns but leaves no ashes."

-- Elsa Triolet

“If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.”
“My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.”
“When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.”
“Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.”
“I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.”
“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”
“Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.”
“We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.”

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