Michael Gruber Quotes

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

~ Michael Gruber

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

~ Michael Gruber

When I got to the States and started going to an American high school, which I did for an extremely short time, I thought everyone around me was insane, the way they talked about their parents. I thought the parents were insane too, the way they handled their kids, like every request they made was a bargain they weren't sure would be kept. That little whiny tone at the end of every statement: Be home by ten, okay?

~ Michael Gruber

Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

~ Michael Gruber

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

~ Michael Gruber

Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.

~ Michael Gruber

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

~ Michael Gruber