Power is the ability not to have to please.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.