“They would not get closer to the truth that night. They watched a period of hockey in silence. Winkler insisted on doing the dishes. Herman insisted on driving him to the bus stop. ”

“The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.”

“Denial and affirmation are games which people play.There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.”

“The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.”

“Should a black woman carrying her "madam's" white baby travel in the "whites only" or the "nonwhites" section of the train? Or would a Japanese visitor who used a "whites only" public toilet be breaking the law? Or what was a bus conductor to do when he ordered a brown-skinned passanger to get off a whites-only bus and the passanger refused, insisting that he was a white man with a deep suntan?”

“Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?”