A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.