I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play.