“I decided arrogantly and arbitrarily, because there was no one there to contradict me, that what we have lost by culture is integral consciousness of mind and body, and gained instead large stomachs, and brains overcharged with knowledge 90 percent of which is useless.”

From Romanian Furrow – Touches the very soul of rural Romania by Donald Hall

“His larger point – his life lesson actually – was that identity is too fluid for the primitive nationalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”

Robert D. Kaplan, In Europe’s Shadow – Two Cold Wars and a Thirty- Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond