Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

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.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.

He who knows how to be content will be content with little.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.