Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

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

To be great is to assume great concerns.

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

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.