George Ball

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.