I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Plato was a bore.