I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

Guys ask me, 'Why are you always smiling?' Are you kidding? I'm in the NFL, that's why!

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.