I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.