Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.