Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.