"Poetry cannot report the event, it must be the event, lived through in a form that can speak about itself while remaining wholly itself."

"It was a high speech of Seneca , that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

"Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself."

"Articles about William the Silent"

"The people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they …"