There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

Myslím, že na místa, kde se odvíjely rozhodující události našich životů, stojí za to občas zavítat, abychom zjistili: nemáme sami se sebou nic společného.

God is another word for Love.

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.