Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.