There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider to be ideal societies; translating this into the language of mathematics, we might say that utopias bear a + sign. The other feature, organically growing out of the content, is to be found in the form: a utopia is always static; it is always descriptive and has no, of almost no, plot dynamics.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.