In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.