“After knowing him I saw the force of the proverb ‘Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don’t trust an Armenian.”
“We'd become Japs, Jews, Niggers. We weren't before.”
“Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?”
“Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange Gods.”
“But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?”
“I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him”