The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

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