Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.

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.