But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.