There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?