The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.

Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores.
— Teller: A Novel

There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.

There were a lot of public concerns expressed about what might be in the data protection text, but the government itself was a lot calmer about the proposal than the public reaction. They looked at the text and realized they needed to review it carefully, before they came back to us with what comments they may have.

The criticism they've made and the charges that they've level are exaggerated. There have been critics here who have been talking about how this text is going to raise pharmaceutical prices by 25 percent or more...and I think there is no evidence of that. They are talking about the lack of availability of AIDS drugs to HIV/AIDS patients in Thailand, and again there is no evidence of that.