Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

All men are born free: just not for long.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.