Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.