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.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

You have to stop living in order to write.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.