Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

To be great is to assume great concerns.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.