In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

If all we’re prepared for is unconventional warfare, suddenly a massed conventional attack becomes an asymmetric advantage.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad.

The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond favourably.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

So cry if you need to but I can't stay to watch you It's the wrong thing to do

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.

I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.