Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

I'm master when my father's away.

It's terrible when the old have to bury the young. But it is more terrible when neither the old nor the young are there to bury each other.

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.