Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

What constitutes the authentic human being?

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.