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

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 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.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Time is your most valuable asset. Money you can spend, lose, and get back. Once time is spent, you can never get it back. Spend your time wisely today.

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.