Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.