I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.