As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Man is what he reads.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.