Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.

A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.