Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

You have to stop living in order to write.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.