They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

All oppression creates a state of war.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.