The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission;he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five