The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

Sustainability isn't an option; it's a responsibility we owe to future generations.

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

The past is a shadow that shapes the present.