The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

Culture is worth a little risk.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.