Joseph Kauffman

“Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Identity is not the future of the left. It is not a force hostile to neoliberalism. Identity is Reaganism for lefties.”
― Mark Lilla, The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics

“I take no sides. I am interested in the shape of ideas. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine: "Do not despair; one the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned." That sentence has a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.”
― Samuel Beckett

“So much of war is sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left, it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American