In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.