A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.