The past can be tamed and controlled.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

Food is my drug of choice.