The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.