Stanley Hoffmann quotes:

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.