The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.